Southampton 3-1 Birmingham City: result and report
Championship · Saturday 6 December 2025
Result
Southampton 3-1 Birmingham City
Championship · Saturday 6 December 2025, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Southampton 3-1 Birmingham City: match report
Southampton won against Birmingham City 3-1 in the Championship on Saturday 6 December 2025. The half-time score was 2-0.
Finn Azaz opened the scoring in the 6th minute. Southampton's goals came from Finn Azaz (6'), Adam Armstrong (24') and Adam Armstrong (58'). Birmingham City scored through Demarai Gray (54').
Discipline: Southampton received 2 yellow cards; Birmingham City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Southampton were 16th on 24 points from 18 and Birmingham City 8th on 28 points from 18. Southampton went on to finish that season 4th with 82 points, and Birmingham City 10th with 64.
Southampton lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Birmingham City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Adam Armstrong of Southampton (8.3), ahead of Léo Scienza (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Southampton wins, 1 draw and 4 for Birmingham City.
Key events
- 6'Goal · Finn Azaz
- 24'Goal · Adam Armstrong
- 49'Yellow card · Tomoki Iwata
- 54'Goal · Demarai Gray
- 58'Goal · Adam Armstrong
- 90+2'Yellow card · Joe Aribo
- 90+6'Yellow card · Tonda Eckert
Head-to-head
Team news
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Southampton line-up (3-4-2-1)
Gavin Bazunu, Taylor Harwood-Bellis, Nathan Wood, Jack Stephens, Tom Fellows, Flynn Downes, Caspar Jander, Ryan Manning, Finn Azaz, Léo Scienza, Adam Armstrong
Birmingham City line-up (4-2-3-1)
J. Beadle, Tomoki Iwata, Phil Neumann, Christoph Klarer, Alex Cochrane, Tommy Doyle, Seung-ho Paik, Patrick Roberts, Jay Stansfield, Demarai Gray, Marvin Ducksch